Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott was born in Golden, BC, started grade school in Fernie, and grew up in Nova Scotia and Toronto. She worked as an actor and director in Toronto and later in England, where she began to write fiction. In 1984 she went west to Saskatchewan to work as a director and dramaturge before going farther west to Mayerthorpe, Alberta, on her husband’s posting with the RCMP. Marina’s first book, Open Arms, was short-listed for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel award in 2002, and her long poem, The Policeman's Wife, some letters, about the murders of four RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe in 2005, was short-listed for the national CBC Literary Awards. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean region and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her new novel, The Little Shadows, about a sister vaudeville act touring the prairies in 1912, will be published by Doubleday this fall.